Paint



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN M. REED, OF PITTSBI RG, PENNSYLVANIA.

PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,396, dated December 11, 1888.

Application filed March 1, 1888. Serial No. 265,796. (No specimens.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN M. REED, of Pit-tsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paints; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to 1 which it pertains to make and use it.

My invention relates to an improvement in paints; and it consists in a compound com- I posed of stearine, asphaltum, rosin, petroleum, paraffine, rosin-oil, oxide of iron, air-slaked quicklime, and mineral spirits, as will be more i fully described hereinafter.

In compounding my paint I take rosin-oil, 1 fifty gallons; asphaltum, seventy-five pounds; t stearine, twenty pounds; rosin, ten pounds; I paraffine, fifty pounds; airslaked quicklime,

two pounds; oxide of iron, calcined, one hundred and fifty pounds; mineral spirits, twenty gallons. In mixin these ingredients together an iron tank is necessary to contain the mixture when complete and to admit of a sufiicient degree of heat. I first put into the tank ten gallons of rosin-oil, seventy-five pounds of asphaltu 1n, twenty-five pounds of stearine, ten pounds of rosin, fifty pounds of paraffine, and

two pounds of air-slaked lime. These ingredients are dissolved by the application of heat.

\Vhen they are thoroughly dissolved and stirred together, forty pounds more of rosinoil and one hundred and fifty pounds of calcined oxide of iron are added. The compound is then stirred until all of the ingredients are thoroughly mixed, when it is removed from the fire and allowed to cool, when the mineral I spirits are added as a drier and the mixture again stirred.

This paint is intended as a waterproof coating, and is especially adapted for covering felt, paper, and canvas roofs. hen applied to the hulls of water-crafts, it will not blister or scale, because it is elastic and ex pands and contracts with the body upon which it is placed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim A paint composed of stearine, asphaltum, rosin, parafiine, rosin-oil, oxide of iron, lime, and mineral spirits, in or about in the proportions specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANKLIN M. REED.

\Yitnesses:

ALBERT H. SUNSHINE, J. b. WEs'r.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent N 0. 394,396, granted December 11, 1888, upon the application of Franklin M. Reed, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Paint, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: In line 27 the Words twenty-five should read twenty, and in line 32 the Word pounds should be stricken out and the Word gallons inserted instead; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, oountersigned, and sealed this 8th day of January, A. D. 1889,

[SEAL] D. L. HAWKINS,

Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

Oountersign ed BENTON J. HALL,

Commissioner of Patents. 

